Evernote for Windows Phone Update: Rich Text Editing, Checkbox Support and More

The youngest member of the Evernote family, Evernote for Windows Phone, got a bunch of great new capabilities today including rich text editing, new sharing options, checking off boxes, decrypting text, and more. Let’s dive in.

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Rich text editing and more

Your notes can take many forms. Sometimes they’re just text; sometimes they’re web clips; and sometimes they have styled text and checkboxes. Now, regardless of what your note contains, you’ll be able to edit it from your Windows Phone.

To edit a note, open it and tap on the edit button in the menu. Next find the area of the note that your wish to edit and tap on it. After you’ve made the changes, tap the check mark. If you’re adding text, then you’ll notice that Evernote automatically maintains the style of the given region that you were editing, meaning that if it the text in that area was bold, your additions will also be bold.

You can also append images and text to the end of any note.

Sharing URLs to notes

Evernote for Windows Phone now allows you to copy a URL to an individual note and paste into an email, IM app, Twitter, or just about any place you like. To do this, open a note and tap on the gift icon. You will see the URL appear in a box along with a copy icon. Tap the copy icon and you’re ready to paste the URL anywhere.

Please note, in order to use this feature you must have a network connection and have the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system.

Rotating and saving images

Say you have an image inside of a web clip that you’d like to rotate. Now you can. Edit the note and tap on the image. You can then choose to rotate the image however you like. Once you tap Save the image orientation will be updated in the note. You can also save an image to your Pictures Hub by expanding the image editing menu.

Checkboxes

In the same way that Evernote for Windows Phone preserves the look and feel of the text region you’re editing, you can also add checkboxes to existing lists. Edit a note and tap into a checkbox to-do list. Every new line that you create will start with a checkbox.

You can also check-off existing checkboxes by tapping on them.

Decrypting note content

Evernote desktop lets you encrypt areas of text. This is great for storing passwords, credit card numbers and anything else that you’d like to keep safe. You can now decrypt these items from your phone. Tap on the encrypted region, then enter your passphrase. This will show you the encrypted text. The text will once again become hidden as soon as you leave the note.

An important note about encryption in Evernote: Never forget your encryption passphrase. Neither the Evernote application nor Evernote staff can help you decrypt any encrypted information if you lose the passphrase.

Many other great improvements

This update also includes many additional enhancements to speed and stability, as well as interface improvements. There’s a lot more on the way. Stay tuned.

really, windows gets rtf before ios? is there something going on prohibiting you from implementing this feature for the iphone, or are you so busy expanding that you’re just going to ignore the platform that accounted for a major part of your original growth? I love evernote and recommend it to just about everybody, but this is getting ridiculous.

This Update looks Great, but it forced a resync of the notes, getting stuck half way through. The message says it cannot handle exception at note 964 of 1268. Is there any way to solve this? I’ve already tried reinstalling the app with no success…
Thanks!

How about IOS Platform guys? People are begging for it for ages (me including) and all we get is a total silence from Evernote team. Are youngest waiting for IOS 5 to come out so you just have to add the widget that support RTF to Evernote? It is getting really frustrated to have such a fantastic tools and not be able to have RTF on it and this for quiet a long time now. And the iPad has not received any major update for months now and Evernote perform poorly on it. And again complete silence on your part and lack of clear communication. Can you at least tell us what are your plans for about this? Do you listen your fans and customers??

Guys and Girls at Everenote, I don’t get this. Windows phone is not half as big as iOS when it comes to market share, even only 1 or 2 % when it comes to Windows Mobile 7. Why the decision not to give iPhone users this feature first?

This is awesome – great update. And great that you are investing so heavily in the Win7 Phone platform. The Windows7 Phone global market share might be small now, but we can expect that to change when Nokia starts releasing Windows 7 devices later this year.
I wonder if you can get Evernote pre-installed on new Nokia Win7 phones…?

Windows Mobile Phone 7 is hardly selling any units, all published usage reports point WM7 to be insignificant. Are you being paid my Microsoft to do the port before IOS, or is the sad fact, that WM7 has build- in support for rich text, while iOS 4.x does not ?

You were once seen as a very Mac/iOS friendly company, now it looks more and more like you are ignoring this segment.

What a terrible experience. All of my lists now have to be edited as single lines… and I can’t delete any of the lines, only blank them out. Did a miss a delete line operation somehow? How do I get back to simple editable text (with newlines)?